Instead of persevering with the Sliding Pillar front suspension on the second and third 2B's we decided to cut the whole lot off and make a Wishbone setup modelled on Joeys car.
Here we see the Jig in Lee's garage with our first upper wishbone in position with a bar across the top to hold it all tight ready for welding.You can also see the Robin Hood supplied steel tubes that came in the Nylaspa bush sets that we bought from RH.
The Jig was extended to make the lower Wishbones quite easily. Once the lower tubes had been welded up in the jig we could then remove it and fit the lower suspension plate.
Here we see Joey making out a Stainless Steel "Template" for our lower Wishbone plates. (for future use)
Pretty soon we had a full set made up, The lower Wishbones are slightly different to Joeys car because on the these ones we have the RH supplied Cortina lower balljoint as opposed to the Screw in ones Joey has.
We decided that only having these two bolts holding the Balljoint on looked a bit spindly so we decided to add some extensions from the tube ends up to the other bolt holes.
Here we have clamped the extensions in place ready to weld, trim and drill the boltholes.
Now with a layer of undercoat it all looks pretty good
Now here is an Incredible sight, I don't mean the Wishbones, I mean the fact that in the background you can see Lee going to get a round of drinks in ! 
Right step forward a few months, and yes we are still working on the Wishbones. You may notice that this is a new set of Bones we actually sold on the first set we made to another bloke who wanted them for his Hood conversion, so now we have made ourselves the second set.
Its about this point we found that mounting the set up copied from Joeys car would be a bit more awkward than planned. With the wheel in the correct position the top Wishbone would slot in perfectly but the lower one was a bit long and would have to mount under the main chassis.
The lower rear arm was the biggest problem as you can see it would have to mount quite a way inboard! This is because the chassis on Joeys car bends inwards at this point and the pillock one is straight.
The lower front one could easily be mounted on a modified bracket similar to this one but to tell the truth we were both getting a bit disillusioned with this set up after a lot of head scratching and debating we had a bit of cracking advice from a lovely "Lady".
"My lady" Irene Maguire suggested that we copy the wishbone setup off her 2B "Mr Blue Sky"!!!
We were currently tidying up her High Milage Hoody which had endured a few winters and over 36k miles so it would be easy to make up a template off her setup.
Lucky we have two "Porky" cats so we had some suitable cardboard for the template.
Now look how good this will fit.
Now we used the template to make up a jig for future use, now we are on a bit of a roll we will try to keep the momentum going "Honest"
Now we have the lower Wishbones Tacked together and ready to be positioned on the car, we started with the right hand side and positioned the rear bracket where it is fitted on Irene's car just beside the cross over tube, making sure the steering rack was nicely in line. We then made sure it was level "Fore and Aft" with the spirit level and tacked the whole lot in place.
As you can see from the top view the steering rack is nicely inline with the stub axle mounting, and of course the wishbone arms meet the chassis "Nicely"
With the right hand "Bone" tacked in place it was time to position the left one!
Here we measure the distance from the Dion Tube mounting plate to the rear of the wishbone mounting bracket and made sure they were both in the same position.
Then the whole lot was Tacked in place.
Here we see where the front mounting bracket will be fixed in place. We will fit a cross member between the two front brackets.
The rear bracket can be mounted more directly because it already has some cross members in place.
Looks good from the above view don't you think?
And not so bad from the front either!
Next thing is to fit the top "Bones" these will require a bit more fettling, with some downtubes and cross members to be manufactured but thats no problem!
